Sweeney’s daughter, Michelle Eastley, told a sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court on Monday that she had asked several times for her father to be seen by a senior doctor and to be transferred to an intensive care unit after his condition had started to deteriorate on Christmas Eve — three days before his death.
Ms Eastley said she directly approached a registrar later on December 26th, 2018, to examine her father but he would only look at the patient’s file and refused to transfer him to the hospital’s intensive care unit as he was “not sick enough”. Ms Eastley said two ICU doctors reviewed him at 4pm but did not believe he should be transferred for intensive care as he did not have any organ failure, despite the family highlighting that he was under severe stress and in a lot of pain. However, she said her father’s condition continued to worsen and he started shaking uncontrollably before becoming unresponsive at about 8pm. He died shortly afterwards.
The consultant said he only became aware of Sweeney’s readmission when he got a call at 9.15pm on December 27th for emergency advice about treatment of the patient. But Prof Moloney said he recommended that any further intervention would be futile after being informed that 55 minutes had already been spent trying to resuscitate the patient.
Prof Moloney told the coroner that he would not have expected at the time to know Sweeney had been placed back in his care unless he had been informed by one of his registrars.
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